> something else that's common in piano and
> guitar music:  a "hanging" tie to the right of a note that means "Let
> this note sound" for an unspecified time.  There's no way that I know
> to say this in abc at present. It's yet another way that keyboard and
> guitar music is the worst case for music notation.

Using BarFly's invisible rests you can do this:

X:1
T:test
M:none
K:C
(A2x) (B2y) (c2x) (d2y)||

x is played as a rest but not printed, y is purely there to occupy some
horizontal space in the staff notation (i.e. it's really a hack to get
round problems occasionally created by BarFly's note spacing algorithms,
but probably all staff-notation generators will need such a hack at
times, albeit no two in the same places).  Which you'd want depends on
the context.



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